How do bomber pilots sleep at night?

aj_reel

They realize that sometimes people have to die in order to save more lives.

Would you allow a armed shooter to rampage in a school because you dont want to hurt them? Or would you realize that there are times when people must make difficult choices and pick what is best for everyone?

CyberGhostface

Obviously because they believe in what they're doing. Their morality and their justifications are different than yours would presumably be.

Of course, that doesn't mean they haven't felt guilt or remorse...but to them, it had to be done.

Wasted_Rich_Girl

nyquil. it really works.

but seriously, my dad was sniper in the marine corps, and he said that he just thinks of it as job with no associate to what there life maybe like. killing doesnt make him happy but it doesn't make him sad. so guess they put it in the back of their minds and think of it as a job like any other.

king_of_hyrule

Hey, my gramps flew in one of those bombers in WWII fighting Nazi's for idiots like you. And he got captured for idiots like you.

rampdogg2000

I'm sure you've heard the expression..... "The end justifies the means"

LarrySmile

They have to deal with it in their own minds. When you are a military person you know that you are there to protect the citizens of the USA from being attacked or preventing other countries from attacking us by dealing with the enemy first. We can not make other nations be our friends. But, these other nations are the ones responsible for the lives of their own people. So, when we have to deliver weapons against other countries the blame for innocent deaths rests with those bad people who are leading their countries and not us in the US military who have to carry the war to them. Remember, everybody in the USA can sleep better at night knowing that our fine military people are putting their own lives at risk to defend us all around the globe. Hope this helps answer your question.

Larry
US Air Force
27 years service

Deathbunny

Whoever said one of the pilots suicided a few years later wasn't talking about the Mission Commanders...

Charles Sweeney, commander of the mission to Nagasaki, died in 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sweeney).

Paul Tibbets, commander of the Hiroshima drop, is still alive. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets)

The bombardier on the Hiroshima drop died in 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ferebee)

Others are still alive, or were recently.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1086108-1,00.html

You can also find statements made by some of these men in the last link and if you search for them, and then you might answer your own question.

coconutmonkeybank

Bomber pilots, like any other people, don't usually do things unless they are convinced they are right. They rationalize, then they act. That's why it's better to think things over and argue rationally, rather than appeal to emotion, as you are doing.

frichalf

We do alot of things in the military in combat situations that you civilians would think as difficult to do, but we are properly trained and we know and expect the results of our actions. Some people cant handle it and thats why they are so heavily medicated after we get back home. As far as Hiroshima, we needed to make a point and I would say that we did.

abdulnonoodle

They smile, knowing they killed people who want to kill you and whether you know it or not you must be protected.
Hopefully we will nuke Mecca and save millions more American lives, including yours. Don't you think your life is worth saving? If not we have bridges and very tall buildings.

Festblues

Are yo sure all of them are actually sleeping.....?

I AM THE RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY

I would say quite soundly knowing they are defending those who can not defend themselves

Hello

~with there eyes closed~

porcerelllisman q

probably better than the murderers at abortion clinics.

bob p

well I'm in the air force and it is my job to build all those bombs. and i sleep very well knowing that my family is safe. and further more, Ive heard hundreds of thanks from American men on the ground that have been saved because my bombs hit on target and detonated on time. if i had screwed something up, and caused a munition to miss target and hurt an innocent person, then i would be upset...but i take great measure to ensure everything will function properly.

alop

they sleep on day

wrf3k

The pilot of the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped the hiroshima bomb) actually committed suicide over it a few years later. It weights very heavily on their consciences.

Don

They sleep like babies I bet. Its not like they have to look at the people they kill they just press a button. Most of them probably will never see any bodies except what they put on cnn. Listen to the song from a distance and think about it.

Nightstalker

they are told to do a job and they do it its the people that tell them to do it that should have trouble sleeping

Sword of Justice

they are not humans but robots obeying whatever they were told to do.

i wonder the same question everynight, how do Americans sleep at night, knowing they voted in a mass murderer into office and supported him in his endeavors to enrich his friends all in the name of preserving the american way of life

Another Perspective

Well, welcome to the Republican party. Whatever it takes for you to feel better about life you can do with a clean conscience. Everyone isn't meant to be in the military, I couldn't do it. Unless I was protecting our soil.

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